#query hooks

Does the voice in your query match your opening pages? #amquerying #querytip #writetip

How to match your query and pages Matching the voice of your hook to your opening pages is critical for a successful query, but too many pitches don’t meet this basic expectation. Pitch feedback events, whether on blogs, contests or even Twitter, are a great source of information for writers in the querying trenches. Despite the drain on their time, several agents participate in these events.…

Writing Logical Pitches #amquerying #pitmad #writetip

Whether on Twitter, blog contests, or in a query, effective pitches must tell a logical story

I shred tons of pitches. Most of them fall into four categories: too vague, genre confusion, no voice, and logic problems. There are plenty of great articles about writing pitches so if you’re just starting out take the opportunity to read a few. My favorite is Laura Edits. There’s tons of information…

Wendy-Burt-Thomas is the author of the wildly-popular Writer's Digest Guide to Query Letters. She's smart, entertaining, and great fun to hang out with. And in the course of talking about our books, we discovered we are twin souls: we both love to make up bad examples.

So please join us for Hooks from Hell: a conversation about the wrong way to write query letters, on AskWendy.